Lifting Standards - not Creating Barriers
1. CPL
Have to agree with triadic's post re the relativities of CPL 's, now and yesterday. Maybe it's whether the current CPL has an over emphasis on procedural matters, and not enough on actual flying skills?
If the CPL is going on to instructing, and for outback charter jobs, then it seems to me that they are better served by having a breadth of flying skills.
These skills could include:
NVFR on all the aids
low level course
tailwheel
aerobatics
some 'heavy' single time, eg 206/210
2. INSTRUCTORS
Lift, and spread the pay scale, so that Gr1 is paid much, much more than Gr3 - perhaps double.
Lift the standards for Gr2 and Gr1 -
almost a return to the old A, B, and C levels
This would mean hours of perhaps 500-1000-2000 instructing for the grades 3,2,1, but the pay scales would/should, reward this.
3.CFI's
There seems to be some agreement that there are ' too many flying schools' - but if so, why? Could it be related to the numbers of enthusiastic, ambitious, but low experience, CFI's available to begin new schools?
If the above is evn partially correct, then it leads on to the question of whether the bar has been set 'too low' for CFI's in terms of flying and other skills?
Should the bar be tinkered with anyway? The market will usually sort it out, albiet sometimes at great expense to many.
See also the thread :
there has got to be a better way , in D & G Questions
cheers,